Cinema
Montenegro
Dušan Makavejev · 1981
Synopsis
Marilyn Jordan, an American, lives in luxury in Stockholm with her Swedish husband, a businessman always travelling, their two children and a grandfather in a wheelchair who places classified ads to find himself a wife. She is bored, and her behaviour becomes strange: she poisons the dog's milk while advising it not to drink it, and sets fire to the sheets. Held at the airport over a pair of secateurs in her bag, she misses her plane and follows a group of Yugoslav immigrants to the Zanzi Bar, their cabaret.
Context
Shot in Stockholm, mostly in English, the film was produced in particular by Bo Jonsson; the Yugoslav Tomislav Pinter was its cinematographer. Susan Anspach plays Marilyn, Erland Josephson the husband, Per Oscarsson the psychiatrist, and the title comes from the name of a young man at the cabaret. In the United States, a few seconds were cut to spare the film the adults-only rating.
Who it is for
Ninety-six minutes, mostly in English. A black comedy, coarse, where laughter and violence arrive in the same scene.
Prizes and reception
Presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 1981, it was well received by the Anglo-Saxon critics.
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